WEBVTT - 2018 Players Preview 0:00:00.080 --> 0:00:00.760 I miss the green. 0:00:00.840 --> 0:00:03.480 For example, I'm already upset. When I find my ball 0:00:03.520 --> 0:00:05.720 in the bunker, I'm really upset. And when I find 0:00:05.760 --> 0:00:08.960 my ball in arid Egg Friday Egg, the dread Frida Egg, 0:00:09.080 --> 0:00:13.200 Friday Bride Egg Lie, I'm about ready to run. 0:00:13.039 --> 0:00:14.120 Off of the course. 0:00:39.560 --> 0:00:42.440 Ladies and gentlemen, Welcome back to another edition of the 0:00:42.440 --> 0:00:46.559 Frida Egg Podcast. Tonight. I am joined by Brendan Poor 0:00:46.640 --> 0:00:49.640 at the Vespian Nation and Sean Martin of the PGA 0:00:49.800 --> 0:00:55.200 Tour as we get ready for this year's Players Championship. Guys, 0:00:55.480 --> 0:00:58.520 welcome on, Thanks for having. 0:00:58.240 --> 0:01:01.080 Me Andy, thanks for having us on again. Like last 0:01:01.120 --> 0:01:04.800 time we uh connected, it was in real life in Augusta, 0:01:04.959 --> 0:01:06.840 but now we're here. Here we are a month later 0:01:07.480 --> 0:01:09.479 with even bigger event on tap. 0:01:11.080 --> 0:01:13.959 Yeah, the biggest event in golf, best field and golf 0:01:14.080 --> 0:01:15.400 the Players. 0:01:16.040 --> 0:01:18.040 Brendon went collared shirt for the pod. 0:01:19.240 --> 0:01:23.039 It's just just a fluke. I don't know, walked in 0:01:23.160 --> 0:01:25.120 and this is what I had on all day. 0:01:25.959 --> 0:01:30.920 So it's been four weeks since the Masters. I feel like, 0:01:31.600 --> 0:01:33.600 you know, that part of the schedule just kind of 0:01:35.080 --> 0:01:37.839 it's a it's a slog, not a ton of buzz 0:01:37.880 --> 0:01:40.720 and golf. What have you guys taken away? You've been 0:01:40.880 --> 0:01:41.960 You've been watching a lot. 0:01:42.680 --> 0:01:46.080 No, I think, like the Masters will like it's this 0:01:46.120 --> 0:01:49.400 is not a complaint about my job. My job is amazing, 0:01:50.040 --> 0:01:53.160 but the Masters and the weeks leading into the Masters 0:01:53.240 --> 0:01:55.880 are like prepping for like a law school final or 0:01:55.920 --> 0:01:59.280 just the final, like a really hard final. It's very 0:01:59.360 --> 0:02:02.680 enjoyable like that week, but once you're done, you just 0:02:02.760 --> 0:02:06.160 kind of unploy. You don't think about whatever, all that stuff. 0:02:06.160 --> 0:02:09.200 You were just studying and writing and caring about and 0:02:09.240 --> 0:02:13.440 reading and watching. And from my perspective, I mean, obviously 0:02:13.800 --> 0:02:15.920 it's my job. I watched the golf and I like 0:02:15.960 --> 0:02:17.959 follow and know what's going on, but it's just kind 0:02:17.960 --> 0:02:21.320 of like you kind of just decompress and let go 0:02:21.600 --> 0:02:29.640 and Satoshi Kadira Kodira, Andrew Landry and then like the 0:02:29.680 --> 0:02:34.040 piercy horse, will kind of run didn't exactly too much 0:02:34.080 --> 0:02:35.399 to kind of pull you back in. 0:02:37.240 --> 0:02:42.200 Yeah, I agree. And even with this new team format, 0:02:43.280 --> 0:02:45.799 I don't know why I can't get into the Zurich 0:02:45.919 --> 0:02:49.679 even with the team format, I honestly think that it's 0:02:49.720 --> 0:02:51.480 because the golf course is so bad. 0:02:52.680 --> 0:02:55.120 Wow. Yeah, I'm surprised if that take on a pee 0:02:55.160 --> 0:02:55.640 die course. 0:02:56.200 --> 0:02:58.560 You tried to argue, I've tried to make that argument. 0:02:58.600 --> 0:02:59.960 You're like, oh, it's not at bad. 0:03:00.280 --> 0:03:04.600 I think it crystallized. You know, as I went for 0:03:04.639 --> 0:03:05.239 a run. 0:03:05.000 --> 0:03:07.880 It's a good stretch. It's a good stretch for dietficiados 0:03:07.919 --> 0:03:10.840 with harbortownc Louisiana, TPC Sawgrass. 0:03:11.800 --> 0:03:14.120 I went for a run this afternoon and I was 0:03:14.160 --> 0:03:17.440 honestly thinking. I was listening to no laying up podcasts 0:03:17.440 --> 0:03:20.680 and I heard Tommy Fleetwood refer to like a string 0:03:20.760 --> 0:03:24.720 of PGA Tour events and he said Riviera, And I 0:03:24.760 --> 0:03:27.400 thought about it. I go, like the really good events 0:03:27.639 --> 0:03:31.040 we refer to as like the have like a course 0:03:31.080 --> 0:03:33.919 that's really good, and a lot of times the tournament 0:03:34.000 --> 0:03:38.560 got just called the course like Riviera, like Harbor Town, 0:03:38.880 --> 0:03:43.440 and like nobody is saying like TPC Los Colinas like 0:03:43.480 --> 0:03:45.760 when I was there or whatever it was. You know, 0:03:46.520 --> 0:03:50.720 this week, this week's event, the TPC Louisiana. Everyone says 0:03:50.720 --> 0:03:54.480 this with the Zurich, you know, colonials the same way Colonials. 0:03:54.760 --> 0:03:56.400 Yeah, they had always had trouble. 0:03:56.120 --> 0:03:59.360 In that because yeah, it's I'm curious where I need 0:03:59.360 --> 0:04:02.120 to know where you stay with Pete Dye's catalog right now, 0:04:02.160 --> 0:04:04.160 because I was very surprised by the tenor of your 0:04:05.400 --> 0:04:08.080 Black Wolf Run and Whistling Straight tweets this week. 0:04:08.680 --> 0:04:12.200 I like Pete Dye. I think Pete Dye was an intro. 0:04:12.640 --> 0:04:15.680 He was so important in architecture and I think he 0:04:16.279 --> 0:04:22.080 really gets strategy. But like, yeah, Whistling Straits offended me yesterday. 0:04:22.839 --> 0:04:27.920 It was so slow. It was just it was unbelievable. 0:04:28.360 --> 0:04:32.040 And I, uh, black Wolf Run. I like Black Wolf 0:04:32.120 --> 0:04:34.920 Run a lot more. Black Wolf Run's way more natural. 0:04:35.000 --> 0:04:35.240 I think. 0:04:35.640 --> 0:04:39.000 I think just like the nature of designing this golf 0:04:39.000 --> 0:04:41.920 course for a resort, like and I know that they 0:04:41.960 --> 0:04:45.400 wanted major championships, but just because you want a major 0:04:45.480 --> 0:04:48.640 championship doesn't mean your golf course needs to be completely 0:04:48.720 --> 0:04:53.239 unplayable for everybody. Like David Kidd on my podcast said, 0:04:53.520 --> 0:04:56.680 Oakmont is the most playable golf course in the world 0:04:56.720 --> 0:05:01.159 for an eighteen handicap. There's no force. Carries are readily 0:05:01.200 --> 0:05:04.520 available if you want to make bogies like at Whistling Straights. 0:05:04.960 --> 0:05:08.840 It is so hard for like a regular golfer. It 0:05:08.920 --> 0:05:12.719 is insane to be And that's why I had a minimum, 0:05:12.760 --> 0:05:15.560 A good based round takes five hours. 0:05:16.960 --> 0:05:19.560 Yeah, I've never played whistling straights, but I really don't 0:05:19.600 --> 0:05:21.680 have any desire to. It just looks so hard. 0:05:22.240 --> 0:05:24.960 I really just say, we're really on brand here. About 0:05:25.000 --> 0:05:27.000 four minutes in the pod and we're talking about black 0:05:27.040 --> 0:05:29.400 Quell wrong the Players Championship preview. 0:05:29.640 --> 0:05:37.080 Hey, Chris coach, we could we could go back to 0:05:37.480 --> 0:05:40.800 we could go back to Jenny Board and to Women's 0:05:40.839 --> 0:05:41.719 Am Open. 0:05:41.839 --> 0:05:44.000 Let me just say one more thing. So my buddy 0:05:44.040 --> 0:05:46.400 set this whole thing up, and I was like, yeah, 0:05:46.440 --> 0:05:50.040 I'll play. You know, I didn't set this up. But anyways, 0:05:50.080 --> 0:05:52.359 I was looking at the t sheet in the morning. 0:05:52.480 --> 0:05:54.799 But while I was driving up and I saw six 0:05:54.880 --> 0:05:59.080 hours between our tee times two courses, and I was like, 0:05:59.279 --> 0:06:01.200 what are we going to do? Get like a big 0:06:01.320 --> 0:06:04.640 lunch like that was like. And sure enough, we like 0:06:04.720 --> 0:06:06.880 got off the course and they're like, we're gonna be 0:06:06.960 --> 0:06:11.359 late for our tea time because it took so long 0:06:11.440 --> 0:06:13.320 to play like that. 0:06:14.480 --> 0:06:17.440 And this was what, what was it a Sunday Sunday 0:06:17.480 --> 0:06:18.560 afternoon morning. 0:06:18.640 --> 0:06:21.159 We played it like nine on a Sunday and it 0:06:21.200 --> 0:06:27.680 took five and a half hours. Yes, but whatever scene 0:06:28.000 --> 0:06:32.200 all right, moving on to a better Uh, I don't 0:06:32.240 --> 0:06:34.920 I don't know, it's a it's a. Both are very 0:06:34.920 --> 0:06:39.280 good championship tests of golf. But getting back to Sawgrass 0:06:39.360 --> 0:06:43.159 in the last couple of weeks, so we returned to 0:06:43.200 --> 0:06:46.919 the site of the big Woo Woo Sea Wou Camps 0:06:47.320 --> 0:06:50.919 triumph last year. You guys see a repeat happening. 0:06:51.880 --> 0:06:54.839 Is uh is Sea Wou to you as Hideki is 0:06:54.839 --> 0:06:57.160 to me. I feel like you're you're you're driving the 0:06:57.200 --> 0:06:58.159 Seawou bandwagon. 0:06:58.480 --> 0:07:01.520 Oh I love Seawoo. I watched him last year. I 0:07:01.600 --> 0:07:04.080 fell in love with like his golf game. I mean, 0:07:04.160 --> 0:07:07.440 like the guy's twenty one years old and he doesn't 0:07:07.480 --> 0:07:10.880 speak English, and he's won twice, and he was the 0:07:10.920 --> 0:07:14.200 youngest player ever to get his PG eight Tour card. 0:07:14.400 --> 0:07:18.160 Like he had to wait to play in events because 0:07:18.160 --> 0:07:19.880 he was too young to play on the tour. 0:07:20.320 --> 0:07:22.640 I mean, like it's forgotten, yeah, especially because it was 0:07:22.680 --> 0:07:23.320 five years ago. 0:07:23.560 --> 0:07:26.600 Then he won on the Web Tour at age eighteen. 0:07:26.800 --> 0:07:29.480 He won on the PGA Tour at nineteen and twenty 0:07:29.840 --> 0:07:32.920 or no, I guess twenty and twenty one. So he 0:07:32.960 --> 0:07:34.440 won on the Web when he was nineteen. 0:07:35.160 --> 0:07:37.600 I think I think I saw I think I saw 0:07:37.680 --> 0:07:42.000 see Will was like plus ten thousand to win to repeat. 0:07:42.680 --> 0:07:45.720 I mean, this is like a really really hard venue 0:07:46.280 --> 0:07:46.880 to kind. 0:07:46.680 --> 0:07:49.040 Of back it up, and no one has ever repeated. 0:07:49.280 --> 0:07:52.440 Yeah, not even win. But I'm talking about content. Sergio 0:07:52.520 --> 0:07:54.920 seems to be pretty consistent. There are a couple others, 0:07:54.960 --> 0:07:59.200 but like, it's pretty hard to kind of make noise 0:07:59.440 --> 0:08:02.880 two years, especially after he won. He got all those obligations, 0:08:03.160 --> 0:08:06.360 you know, like give him the club to the clubhouse 0:08:06.560 --> 0:08:09.160 and being kind of the face of the tournament and 0:08:09.200 --> 0:08:13.520 the ads and signing all all the autographs, kissing the babies. 0:08:13.600 --> 0:08:15.520 I don't know, see who's going to be that kind 0:08:15.520 --> 0:08:20.000 of brand man this year. But yeah, it's hard to repeat. 0:08:20.040 --> 0:08:22.520 It's hard to even contend in a comeback. 0:08:23.080 --> 0:08:24.920 But he chipped and putted like a demon. I was 0:08:24.920 --> 0:08:27.840 looking at the stats. He he hit nineteen greens on 0:08:27.880 --> 0:08:31.320 the weekend, he made one bogie, He had forty nine putts, 0:08:31.360 --> 0:08:33.360 Like it was I mean, he was gonna be bound 0:08:33.360 --> 0:08:35.080 from everywhere. It was insane. 0:08:35.200 --> 0:08:38.560 It was incredible. I mean, he was he was so good. 0:08:38.600 --> 0:08:40.679 But I mean he's had a good year this year. 0:08:40.720 --> 0:08:42.880 He's had He's got three top tens already this year. 0:08:43.200 --> 0:08:45.120 Yeah, he's turning in the right direction. He's you know, 0:08:45.440 --> 0:08:47.720 last year right forward the players he'd started working Sean 0:08:47.760 --> 0:08:49.319 Foley and that was the story. Now he's working with 0:08:49.360 --> 0:08:52.800 Andrew Getson and Josh Gregory. He's got two guys he's 0:08:52.840 --> 0:08:55.360 working with, and so it seems to be working though. 0:08:55.400 --> 0:08:57.440 I mean, before Harvardtown he was second to last this 0:08:57.520 --> 0:08:59.400 year in strokes game putting. So the fact that he's 0:08:59.400 --> 0:09:02.200 gonna even make cuts doing that, it's pretty incredible. 0:09:03.120 --> 0:09:05.080 That say that again, who's he go with? 0:09:05.840 --> 0:09:07.559 Uh, Andrew gets In? Who works with? 0:09:07.840 --> 0:09:10.440 Oh? Yeah, yeah, yeah, okay, gotcha? And Josh Gregory and 0:09:10.520 --> 0:09:12.199 Josh Gregory the performance coach. 0:09:12.400 --> 0:09:13.760 Yeah, short game performance. 0:09:14.120 --> 0:09:14.520 Interesting. 0:09:14.600 --> 0:09:17.679 I didn't know that article on pjhor dot com right 0:09:17.679 --> 0:09:19.080 now details all of that. 0:09:19.640 --> 0:09:21.560 Oh is that by you? 0:09:21.720 --> 0:09:22.640 That is by myself? 0:09:23.160 --> 0:09:25.960 Sounds like you're here your beat, You're all over that. 0:09:27.400 --> 0:09:29.640 Him and Phil are trading secrets, you know. 0:09:29.880 --> 0:09:32.160 But I mean, like, given like what you're talking about, 0:09:32.200 --> 0:09:35.160 you said, he's had like a pretty good year comparatively 0:09:35.240 --> 0:09:37.400 the last year. I mean, he had done very little 0:09:37.440 --> 0:09:40.120 and was hurt, but like plus ten thousands seems a 0:09:40.160 --> 0:09:42.880 little lot of whack, you know, for the defunding champ 0:09:43.000 --> 0:09:45.640 you just figure. I mean, I can't imagine there's a 0:09:45.679 --> 0:09:47.680 ton of public money rushing in on it, but the 0:09:47.720 --> 0:09:50.200 odds just seemed a little off for the funding chair 0:09:50.920 --> 0:09:52.120 and a guy who's had a good year. 0:09:52.520 --> 0:09:56.040 Sure, yeah, I just don't think. I don't think anybody. 0:09:56.200 --> 0:09:59.559 It's only five what is it five guys Sean that 0:09:59.720 --> 0:10:01.120 won five. 0:10:01.040 --> 0:10:04.800 That yeah, and for him had to wait ten years 0:10:04.880 --> 0:10:07.800 or more between wins. Only Steve Elkington was six years 0:10:07.800 --> 0:10:09.520 between wings. I don't know what that means or what 0:10:09.520 --> 0:10:12.760 that says. But not many guys win twice. When they do, 0:10:12.800 --> 0:10:14.120 they're pretty far spaced out. 0:10:14.400 --> 0:10:17.520 One of those guys is the big cat, Tiger Waentz. 0:10:18.600 --> 0:10:20.760 What do you what do you guys expect from him 0:10:20.800 --> 0:10:21.240 this week? 0:10:22.679 --> 0:10:23.320 Is this he playing? 0:10:25.679 --> 0:10:29.920 I I think he'll be okay, only cause he's hitting 0:10:29.960 --> 0:10:31.839 it well enough. He was top twenty strokes, gained off 0:10:31.840 --> 0:10:34.000 the tee and approached the green. Last week he did 0:10:34.040 --> 0:10:36.520 just horribly. You know. It's not, of course, we have 0:10:36.600 --> 0:10:38.800 great memories or a great you know, great record for 0:10:39.120 --> 0:10:41.720 he's won twice. But I mean for Tiger, that's nothing. 0:10:42.200 --> 0:10:43.920 So I don't know we're looking at probably like a 0:10:44.679 --> 0:10:48.240 twenty seventh place finish twenty seven. 0:10:48.559 --> 0:10:52.480 I think that's yeah. I think he's hitting the ball well, right. 0:10:52.520 --> 0:10:56.640 I mean, the iron play wasn't horrendous. Yesterday I heard 0:10:56.679 --> 0:10:59.840 Pierre Costas on the broadcast This is well As Farga 0:11:00.080 --> 0:11:02.240 something about like he'd only hit five or six balls 0:11:02.240 --> 0:11:05.400 inside ten feet all week. But I mean, I think 0:11:05.440 --> 0:11:08.760 his strokes game approached, Sharks gained overall TV Green was 0:11:08.800 --> 0:11:11.800 pretty good. Obviously, his putting was just horrible. Hopefully they 0:11:11.800 --> 0:11:15.640 get him running. I would love to see the recreation 0:11:15.720 --> 0:11:18.880 of that tobaccle in twenty was the twenty sixteen when 0:11:18.880 --> 0:11:21.640 they lost the Greens and they were like glass couchers 0:11:21.679 --> 0:11:24.320 talking about how they're frictionless. You put your putter down, 0:11:24.360 --> 0:11:28.760 it would slide off. Yeah, the Duke crap. I'd love 0:11:28.800 --> 0:11:31.400 to see that because we know Tiger just hates slow 0:11:31.480 --> 0:11:34.079 Greens can't figure it out where they just like tricked 0:11:34.120 --> 0:11:36.800 him up in him like glass again for Tiger. 0:11:37.600 --> 0:11:39.920 That he got sixty seven that day. 0:11:40.360 --> 0:11:44.319 Yeah, yeah, your boyhead Decky is about to fall out 0:11:44.480 --> 0:11:45.440 out of the top ten. 0:11:45.640 --> 0:11:48.319 But hey, yeah it rough times, you. 0:11:48.280 --> 0:11:51.160 Know, Tiger. The thing I think with Tiger is like 0:11:51.280 --> 0:11:55.320 he's the quintessential, like hasn't put it all together yet. 0:11:55.520 --> 0:11:58.320 He's had like tournaments where he's putted it great, He's 0:11:58.360 --> 0:12:01.280 had tournaments where he's chipped it, He's had tournaments where 0:12:01.320 --> 0:12:04.000 he's hit his irons great. And now like last week 0:12:04.120 --> 0:12:06.560 was the first tournament where he really drove it well. 0:12:07.320 --> 0:12:10.560 And when you're coming back from a long layoff, that's 0:12:10.720 --> 0:12:12.520 what golf is. It takes a lot of time to 0:12:12.559 --> 0:12:15.560 get everything back and working together at once. Like I 0:12:15.600 --> 0:12:19.080 think he's I think this is all part of not 0:12:19.200 --> 0:12:22.600 to take the seventy six ers. The process. We got 0:12:22.600 --> 0:12:25.000 to trust the process here and we could be in 0:12:25.040 --> 0:12:26.480 for a big week. 0:12:26.640 --> 0:12:26.920 I don't. 0:12:26.960 --> 0:12:29.800 I don't like this course for him, but I think 0:12:30.760 --> 0:12:33.960 a big week soon from him where he wins. I mean, 0:12:34.440 --> 0:12:38.520 he hasn't had a week where he did everything well yet. 0:12:39.400 --> 0:12:40.800 It is good for him and that he can hit 0:12:40.800 --> 0:12:42.640 a lot of two irons. And actually I pulled up 0:12:42.640 --> 0:12:45.040 his record, I'm actually surprised. He has nine top twenty 0:12:45.040 --> 0:12:47.760 fives and seventeen starts here five top ten, so it's 0:12:47.760 --> 0:12:51.000 actually a little but even during his prime years of 0:12:51.080 --> 0:12:53.040 like you know, two thousand, two thousand, and he went 0:12:53.080 --> 0:12:54.679 to second and first, but after that he was a 0:12:54.720 --> 0:12:56.679 lot of elevens and twelves, And I mean those are 0:12:56.760 --> 0:13:00.359 years when he's playing some pretty good golf. So I mean, yeah, 0:13:00.400 --> 0:13:02.800 it's a strong it's a solid record there, but for Tiger, 0:13:03.200 --> 0:13:04.280 you know, anything less than a winner. 0:13:04.679 --> 0:13:07.280 It's such a relative scale for a venue he plays 0:13:07.320 --> 0:13:10.320 like every single year, he just you expect it to 0:13:10.360 --> 0:13:13.960 be d ral Firestone, right, or it's so weird, so 0:13:14.040 --> 0:13:17.719 our kind of frame of reference is so out of whack, like, oh, 0:13:17.760 --> 0:13:19.559 he hasn't you know, it doesn't have that great record 0:13:19.559 --> 0:13:21.360 here because he's only won it twice and we know 0:13:21.440 --> 0:13:23.680 he's played it every year on the schedule, and. 0:13:23.679 --> 0:13:25.600 Don't forget the ninety four US Sanitary either. 0:13:25.960 --> 0:13:30.280 Yeah s, why do you guys think he hasn't played 0:13:30.360 --> 0:13:33.000 as well here as he has at other courses? 0:13:34.400 --> 0:13:36.040 I think one reason is hard to play well here. 0:13:36.080 --> 0:13:38.760 I mean, you know, you're always one swing away from 0:13:38.880 --> 0:13:41.840 just ruining your week. That's definitely part of it. 0:13:41.880 --> 0:13:45.880 I think, Yeah, I think that's you know, he did 0:13:45.880 --> 0:13:48.440 get he was more wild off the tee obviously in 0:13:48.480 --> 0:13:50.439 that kind of back half of his career. 0:13:50.800 --> 0:13:52.520 And then let's more, guys, into it. So like when 0:13:52.520 --> 0:13:54.240 he won in two thousand and one, right before he 0:13:54.240 --> 0:13:56.280 finished the Tiger Slam at the Masters, he's playing in 0:13:56.280 --> 0:13:58.160 the fund group with Jerry Kelly, So you're just playing 0:13:58.160 --> 0:14:00.720 with a strong field. At a course they kind of 0:14:01.320 --> 0:14:05.560 lets anyone who's playing well contain no matter they're playing style. 0:14:05.640 --> 0:14:07.880 So like you have Tiger Woods, you have Jerry Kelly 0:14:07.960 --> 0:14:10.160 staring Tiger Woods down eye to eye going to the 0:14:10.160 --> 0:14:11.880 fun round. And so I think that too, just makes 0:14:11.880 --> 0:14:14.040 it hard to There's just so many guys who can 0:14:14.120 --> 0:14:16.040 win at this golf course. It doesn't really eliminate one 0:14:16.040 --> 0:14:19.160 style of play, and that makes it harder to as well. 0:14:19.360 --> 0:14:22.200 Yeah, I completely agree with you, Sean. I think it 0:14:22.640 --> 0:14:25.600 doesn't really favor one style of play. You look down 0:14:25.640 --> 0:14:28.800 the list of winners and you got your ball strikers, 0:14:28.840 --> 0:14:33.320 obviously with like Sergio Stenson, but then you also have 0:14:33.440 --> 0:14:35.800 guys like you know, see Wu Kim who won only 0:14:35.840 --> 0:14:38.680 hitting nineteen greens on the weekend because his short game 0:14:38.760 --> 0:14:41.920 was good and he didn't make any big mistakes. I mean, 0:14:42.120 --> 0:14:45.520 Polter a fit runner up last year. He's not you 0:14:45.560 --> 0:14:47.960 know long. He's a good onion player, a good potter, 0:14:48.040 --> 0:14:51.840 but you got Jim Furika has been a runner up here. 0:14:52.040 --> 0:14:54.960 You got all kinds of different players, I mean Fred Funk. 0:14:56.120 --> 0:14:58.920 It's eclectic styles of play. 0:15:00.120 --> 0:15:03.280 I love Phil. He won here and he has three 0:15:03.320 --> 0:15:05.160 top tens and twenty four starts and he won in 0:15:05.200 --> 0:15:06.920 twenty or two thousand and seven. He just switched to 0:15:06.960 --> 0:15:09.960 Butcher and he's like, you know, I just I played 0:15:09.960 --> 0:15:12.360 this really controlled fade. I didn't swing as far back 0:15:12.400 --> 0:15:15.720 as I normally do. It's really wished to play more often. 0:15:16.320 --> 0:15:18.240 And then of course that lasted like a week and 0:15:18.280 --> 0:15:21.760 then and then he went back to his old solid play. 0:15:21.800 --> 0:15:23.240 But it's like this guy has an epiphany to win 0:15:23.320 --> 0:15:25.800 at a golf course as he plays horribly and just can't 0:15:25.800 --> 0:15:27.840 stick with it long enough. You find something new two 0:15:27.840 --> 0:15:28.720 weeks later to work on. 0:15:30.120 --> 0:15:32.320 Do you think we you know, I don't think there 0:15:32.320 --> 0:15:35.160 hasn't been as many obscure winners, but there was kind 0:15:35.160 --> 0:15:37.800 of a run where people are like, oh, you know, 0:15:37.880 --> 0:15:39.640 you get a lot of fluky winners here. Do you 0:15:39.680 --> 0:15:42.320 think it's because the field is so deep and there 0:15:42.360 --> 0:15:46.560 aren't any you know, amateurs or club pros or you know, 0:15:46.760 --> 0:15:48.760 older past champions in the field. 0:15:49.840 --> 0:15:51.840 The May winners list has been really strong. I think 0:15:51.840 --> 0:15:54.120 some of the fluky years were the years that like 0:15:54.600 --> 0:15:57.840 the rough got really long. In March. 0:15:58.080 --> 0:16:00.640 Yeah, I would say like since the move to it's 0:16:00.800 --> 0:16:05.280 really been kind of a murderers row, mostly major champions, 0:16:05.880 --> 0:16:10.000 I guess, aside from Sea wou Ricky, but yeah, I 0:16:10.000 --> 0:16:12.280 think like it's a lot of like legit guys who 0:16:12.360 --> 0:16:14.320 are probably in the top ten in the world, close 0:16:14.320 --> 0:16:16.240 to the top ten, you know, Sea Wu was the 0:16:16.240 --> 0:16:19.400 first departure from that run. I think the switch to May, 0:16:19.560 --> 0:16:23.160 I think yeah, because it's there are no AMBS club 0:16:23.200 --> 0:16:27.160 pros anything like that. The masters. What I mean, once 0:16:27.200 --> 0:16:30.040 you make the cut, there's it's not a lot of guys. 0:16:30.080 --> 0:16:32.480 It's not you know you're going you're bound to get 0:16:32.720 --> 0:16:35.640 four or five at the you know, inside the top 0:16:35.800 --> 0:16:38.880 fifteen in the world kind of probably hanging around. It's 0:16:38.880 --> 0:16:41.320 just a smaller field and easier to get to get 0:16:41.320 --> 0:16:43.320 in the mix there. Not easier, but you know what 0:16:43.320 --> 0:16:47.720 I mean, it's it's there's less depth. I just think, yeah, 0:16:47.880 --> 0:16:50.320 you're going to get a guy that maybe the casual 0:16:50.400 --> 0:16:53.200 fan has never heard of, or certainly in March, you 0:16:53.200 --> 0:16:56.040 get a Stephen Ames or Fred Fahng. Players like that 0:16:56.040 --> 0:17:00.960 that maybe you know, are not the big names that 0:17:00.960 --> 0:17:03.880 that the tour is promoting in a featured group nowadays, 0:17:03.920 --> 0:17:06.479 but it's such a deep feel that those guys can 0:17:06.520 --> 0:17:09.280 come out come and we all, we all as golf 0:17:09.400 --> 0:17:11.439 nuts who watched this week the week aren't surprised. But 0:17:11.600 --> 0:17:13.680 maybe if you're just tuning in because you know it's 0:17:13.720 --> 0:17:15.159 a big event, you might be. 0:17:15.720 --> 0:17:17.120 Yeah. I think there were a few years they grew 0:17:17.119 --> 0:17:19.600 the rough out too thick, But I think ye March 0:17:19.800 --> 0:17:21.480 March will be good. I think, but there were a 0:17:21.520 --> 0:17:23.400 couple years they want to get a old too, Harry. 0:17:23.560 --> 0:17:25.600 So what will that switch it from Bermuda to like 0:17:25.680 --> 0:17:26.680 oversea it Raye. 0:17:27.240 --> 0:17:30.600 Over Yeah, what do you think of that? 0:17:30.680 --> 0:17:31.840 Andy? 0:17:32.280 --> 0:17:36.600 I think I don't think it's that big of a difference. 0:17:36.880 --> 0:17:41.280 I mean, I think I don't people look into it. 0:17:41.440 --> 0:17:45.080 They put the grass so much. I really think it's 0:17:45.200 --> 0:17:49.199 overstated in the sense like whoever plays will also going 0:17:49.240 --> 0:17:52.800 to play well, obviously, Like I think with the Greens 0:17:52.840 --> 0:17:55.040 it makes a bigger difference, but the greens are still 0:17:55.040 --> 0:17:58.720 going to be Bermuda, you know, like Kevin Kissner on Bermuda, 0:17:58.760 --> 0:18:01.600 Greens is always like a good pick. I think putting 0:18:01.640 --> 0:18:04.280 on Bermuda is different, but they aren't gonna be changing 0:18:04.320 --> 0:18:06.480 the grass on the greens that it will be. 0:18:06.840 --> 0:18:09.880 I think Formida rough is a challenge for some guys. 0:18:11.240 --> 0:18:13.240 I think anyone can play Bent. I think Bent is 0:18:13.520 --> 0:18:15.399 most guys know how to play that. But Bermuda is 0:18:15.440 --> 0:18:18.360 definitely tricky ship out of do. 0:18:18.320 --> 0:18:20.680 You guys think we'll get a winner inside the top 0:18:20.720 --> 0:18:22.720 ten or outside the top ten this week? 0:18:24.840 --> 0:18:30.920 Numbers would say outside, Yeah, I'm big on Bryson this week. 0:18:31.359 --> 0:18:32.920 I am too huge. 0:18:33.000 --> 0:18:36.040 Oh my god, I'm not even messing with him. I 0:18:36.200 --> 0:18:39.720 em like a seven A joke for Brandon. This is 0:18:39.800 --> 0:18:40.679 I'm big on Bryson. 0:18:41.400 --> 0:18:41.960 I am too. 0:18:42.600 --> 0:18:44.760 It's a perfect course for him. He can hit those 0:18:44.840 --> 0:18:48.120 kind of stingers that he likes to hit. He's very cerebral. 0:18:48.200 --> 0:18:51.200 He's playing really well. He made triple on his third hole, 0:18:51.200 --> 0:18:52.639 a quill hollow and finished fourth. 0:18:52.840 --> 0:18:55.840 He made a double and a triple at Harbortown and 0:18:55.840 --> 0:18:56.600 finished second. 0:18:57.440 --> 0:19:00.320 Yeah. I mean the guy well thirty three. Yeah, but 0:19:00.440 --> 0:19:02.600 like three top fours in his last three starts, and 0:19:02.760 --> 0:19:04.760 I don't know, it just seems it's a placement golf course. 0:19:04.800 --> 0:19:07.520 It's all about, you know, strokes gain approach the green. 0:19:08.119 --> 0:19:10.640 I just it feels very brisening. 0:19:11.040 --> 0:19:15.760 I completely agree he I believe he's a guy that's 0:19:15.800 --> 0:19:20.359 gonna play well regularly at difficult golf courses. He hits 0:19:20.359 --> 0:19:22.760 it really well. Like if you're gonna say there's one 0:19:22.840 --> 0:19:25.959 weakness in his game, it's you know, on the and 0:19:26.000 --> 0:19:30.200 around the greens. I don't like him trying to hit 0:19:30.359 --> 0:19:33.199 shots with those single anth irons around the greens that 0:19:33.359 --> 0:19:37.480 it's really awkward to watch. But I like, I think 0:19:37.520 --> 0:19:39.639 this is a place where you know he can be 0:19:40.119 --> 0:19:42.760 He's so like he can be so surgical when he's 0:19:42.760 --> 0:19:45.200 on with like where he hits it and he's got 0:19:45.200 --> 0:19:47.360 a game plan, he sticks to it, and I think 0:19:47.359 --> 0:19:49.639 he's a guy that kind of understands how to play 0:19:49.800 --> 0:19:53.040 proper golf. He's not a bomb and gaugery. He kills 0:19:53.080 --> 0:19:56.159 it though. I mean, he's got all the skills. I 0:19:56.160 --> 0:19:59.120 think he this is the perfect kind of setup for him. 0:19:59.200 --> 0:20:00.840 Difficult golf horses. 0:20:01.200 --> 0:20:04.480 Fourteenth off the T seventeenth and stroskan approach the green 0:20:04.600 --> 0:20:06.120 might as well. His book itt To be honest, he's 0:20:06.200 --> 0:20:06.919 this is price is. 0:20:06.920 --> 0:20:10.120 Weak when score looks like less. I don't know. Since 0:20:10.160 --> 0:20:13.480